Buffer Resources

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Andy Yates, Staff Engineer 📍Started at Buffer in June 2012 as iOS Engineering Lead 🌎 Location: California, U.S. ⏰ Time at Buffer: 11 years, 6 months Andy was one of Buffer’s earliest hires. ⏰ Time at Buffer: 3 years As Buffer’s CPO, Maria rounds out the executive team.

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VP of Engineering Part-Time CTO New CTO CTO 124

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

I think it’s more around a consciousness of what you know, or what you may not know, and then hiring around it to become successful. ” I’m kind of like, “Even if you make one or two sales in the next couple of months, with your VP sales, it’s going to take you three months to go and hire.”

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New CTO Sales Hiring B2C CTO Hire 182

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

And, you go in the wayback machine to 2012, when I started Amplify, Amplify one was me and $49.1 What about, as someone who’s gone from your own solo GP fund in 2012 to a team, how does a founder think about a new partner? Just like a whole bunch of people said, “I’ll never hire remote.” million, call it 50.

Sales Recruiting 226

Sales Recruiting Development Team Review Technical Review Sales Hiring 226

ProfitWell

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

When Co-founder and CTO of Chargify , Michael Klett isn’t brewing his own beer, he’s crafting billing experiences. A fascination with problem solving is what led me, Founder and CEO, to start ProfitWell in 2012. MRR is the best way to start measuring revenue but as you grow, different metrics will come into play. Michael Klett.

CTO Hire 98

CTO Hire Sales Hiring New CTO CTO 98

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Follow the Demand and Hire Accordingly [16:07]. Chris was actually the first sales hire at Snowflake. They are now well past $100 million in ARR and one of the most successful enterprise technology businesses to come out of Silicon Valley and, in fact, out of the US in a long, long time. We started building that in 2012.

Scale 83

Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting CTO Hire 83

OPEXEngine

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

“Ultimately, health scoring is just another tool in the toolbox; it’s not a command center,” says SaaSWorks ’ Head of Operations Michael Redbord, who previously built HubSpot’s first customer health scoring system back in 2012. “It You’ll need someone familiar with your data—perhaps a CTO or someone responsible for business operations.

Startup 91

Startup Scale Systems Review Technical Review 91

SaaStr

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Julian Lemoine, Co-Founder, and CTO of Algolia will share his lessons learned on how to stay focused and innovative as you scale while also avoiding the innovation for innovation’s sake pitfalls. Julien Lemoine | Co-founder and CTO @Algolia. So I’m Julien, Co-founder and CTO of Algolia. Want to see more content like this?

Scale 174

Scale Scaling CTO Hire Part-Time VPE 174

SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2020

Jason Lemkin: And when I look back, maybe the fourth SaaStr post I wrote in 2012, I was walking, bumming around downtown Palo Alto and the last boarded up retail reopened. But so it was four years, the last time when the cloud was smaller, right? From contract signature to launch. I have a one year contract. Let them go.

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Payment Methods Merchant Services Scale Payments 274

OPEXEngine

JUNE 16, 2020

Hired CEOs: It’s the Board’s Company vs. It’s My Company to Run. You become a hired CEO primarily through one path — climbing the corporate ladder at a large tech company [5a], reaching the GM or CXO level, and then deciding to branch out. 6] Like it or not, it’s not a bad three-part formula for climbing the corporate ladder.

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Sales Hiring CTO Hire Venture Capital Technical Advisors 59

SaaStr

AUGUST 22, 2020

One of the things that you and I talk about a lot is hiring for skill and impact over proximity, right? Jason Lemkin: Box Shield has a rule-based hire, I can pick rules. And then obviously, I think there’ll be more remote hiring in this environment. So, that’s effectively what we’re working on.

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Sales Recruiting Cloud CTO Hire Sales Hiring 214

SaaStr

JANUARY 10, 2020

How does Bob think about when is the right time to hire a Head of Partnerships? Where do most startups go wrong both in hiring for partnerships and in the engagements themselves? Let’s hire an amazing VP of product who’s going to answer this question for us and kind of have the frameworks to do it.

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Sales Hiring Outsourcing Services Scale CTO Hire 162

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 10, 2024

This is 2012 when I met Scott Wolf, the founder. I’m not going to claim to be the founder of Levelset, but that founding team, CTO, VP of customer experience, chief legal, our CFO, who kind of came later, but like that group, everyone stayed with the organization in executive roles the whole time. That was the business.

Scale 116

Scale Sales Hiring Scaling CTO Coach 116